Police arrest man again in Carlson case

Friday

Oct 21, 2011 at 12:01 AMOct 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM

STOCKTON - Stockton police have again arrested Jason Ross Gilley, 25, in connection with the death of Dalene Carlson. Gilley was arrested at 7:15 a.m. Thursday by SWAT officers at his home on Amador Court, said Officer Pete Smith, a Stockton police spokesman.

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STOCKTON - Stockton police have again arrested Jason Ross Gilley, 25, in connection with the death of Dalene Carlson. Gilley was arrested at 7:15 a.m. Thursday by SWAT officers at his home on Amador Court, said Officer Pete Smith, a Stockton police spokesman.

The body of 23-year-old Carlson was found in an Escalon cornfield Saturday, more than two months after she had been reported missing.

Carlson was last seen Aug. 7 after leaving Finnegan's Pub and Grill on Pacific Avenue with Gilley.

Security footage from the Food4Less on West Hammer Lane also shows the two purchasing alcohol together at 1:30 a.m. that day.

Gilley was identified and arrested as a person of interest in the case in mid-August after he told police contradictory stories about the last time he saw Carlson. He was released two days later, however, for lack of evidence.

Gilley first told police he and Carlson parted ways at the pub. Later, he told authorities the two had consensual sex.

According to police, he told them the two got into an argument after having sex, and Gilley told them he dropped off Carlson 40 minutes south of Stockton in an unfamiliar location near Highway 99. She did not have any money or identification cards on her when she disappeared, according to police.

Her body was found over the weekend in a state of severe decomposition, Smith said. Authorities announced Wednesday that, based on autopsy results, they ruled her death a homicide, but they have not disclosed how she was killed.

The time of her death has not yet been disclosed.

Carlson, an Idaho native, moved to Stockton several months before she disappeared.

She and Gilley were introduced through mutual friends, he said in August. Gilley is being held without bail at San Joaquin County Jail and is scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon.